69 Love Songs Volume 1
69 Love Songs is a triple album by The Magnetic Fields, one of the many projects of hyper-prolific Stephin Merritt. The songs are quirky, beautiful, poignant, and funny. Here are a few snippets of the lyrics, just of Volume 1.
Absolutely Cuckoo
Don’t fall in love with me yet
We only recently met
True I’m in love with you but
you might decide I’m a nut
Give me a week or two to
go absolutely cuckoo
Reno Dakota
Reno Dakota there’s not an iota
of kindness in you
You know you enthrall me
and yet you don’t call me
It’s making me blue
Pantone 292
Come Back from San Francisco
Come back from San Francisco
It can’t be all that pretty
when all of New York City misses you
Let’s Pretend We’re Bunny Rabbits
Let’s pretend we’re bunny rabbits
Let’s do it all day long
rapidly becoming rabid
singing little rabbit songs
The Book of Love
The book of love is long and boring
No one can lift the damn thing
It’s full of charts and facts and figures
and instructions for dancing
How Fucking Romantic
How fucking romantic
Must we really waltz
Drag another cliche
howling from the vaults
Boa Constrictor
My mother should have murdered me
What jury would convict her, babe
for love is wrapped around my heart
like a boa constrictor, babe
A Pretty Girl is Like
I am so in love with you, girl,
it’s like I’m on the moon
I can’t really breathe, but I feel lighter
My Sentimental Melody
When I drink I don’t panic
When I drink I don’t die
When I’m far gone
it’s all just a song
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